Rudy Giuliani wouldn't do the next two debates if he were Trump. (AP Photo/Matt York)

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Donald Trump thinks that he was the clear winner of Monday's debate and that moderator Lester Holt did a "great job" with "very fair" questions. But if Rudy Giuliani were Trump, he'd take a hard pass on the last two debates, per the Hill. Or at least not "unless I was promised the journalist would act like a journalist, and not an ignorant fact check," the former NYC mayor said after the debate, as shown in a Bloomberg video. (Starting around the 16:15 mark.) "My advice would be the moderator would have to promise they'd be a moderator." Giuliani especially took umbrage at Holt's "outrageous" input during a discussion on the controversial stop-and-frisk policy Giuliani put into place while he was New York's mayor (current Mayor Bill de Blasio has since nixed the program).

Holt said the practice had been ruled "unconstitutional" in New York, which hit a nerve with Giuliani. "If journalism has ethics, Lester Holt [was] unethically interfering in the area of law he knows nothing about," Giuliani said, adding, "It is not unconstitutional." (The Hill notes it was ruled unconstitutional by a circuit court judge but was never given the final word by a higher court. See LawNewz for a more in-depth explanation.) "If you wonder why Donald Trump thinks that the press is a left-wing basically oriented group, Lester Holt proved it tonight," Giuliani said, per Politico. (Giuliani's take on Black Lives Matter: It's "inherently racist.")

I think I agree.. A Face to Face Debate is a method of discussion that PRE Dates Modern Media.. The Commercialized Media of the News No Longer professes to be or is expected to be fare and impartial.. A Debate Today is News Agenda Advertising.. Honest Truth a Written Script Debate would be Boring as Hell.. But more closely represents reality.. Just as sure as Hilary's Scripted responses are honed and polished by speech writers.. that is they reality of a Presidents and a Businessman's decisions.. They seek advice in decisions..

Abbey

Sep 28, 2016 7:26 AM CDT

In other words: We Got SLAMMED.Now how can we avoid a public humiliation TWO MORE TIMES? Lester Holt is a registered Republican since 2003. Independent before that, how can you claim he was biased against a GOP candidate for stopping him to point out that his proposed policy is illegal and unconstitutional?

Storm Ferguson

Sep 28, 2016 4:32 AM CDT

Giuliani like Trump only finds his sole, ever loving admirer when he looks in the mirror. Another hubris overloaded schmuck.